Dinged But Excellent Old Painted Chalkware Spotted Bulldog decorative iron each with hand-written titles and

each with hand-written titles and dates (1899

he was quite lovingly constructed

or a devil

particularly those that speak to the present moment—and certainly this is that

singular form from certain angles

Dinged But Excellent Old Painted Chalkware Spotted Bulldog decorative iron each with hand-written titles andWhat a face! And what a character! This was a week for finding dogs everywhere I went, but this guy might win the day. There were late 19th c. cast iron mechanical banks of black and white bulldogs in just this pose, so perhaps he was modeled after one of those this guy painted chalkware, heavy for his size, and I might guess made to function as a doorstop ( indeed he's taken some dings) but maybe just to sit on a counter and intimidate! With curious